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Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

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333 points steveklabnik | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 08:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jweir ◴[26 Aug 25 21:13 UTC] No.45032411[source]▶
fast installs will be great. compiling ruby is the only slow part left in our provisioning process.
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inopinatus ◴[27 Aug 25 00:44 UTC] No.45034145[source]▶
to this end I have been deploying with the fullstaq-ruby builds for some years now.
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jweir ◴[27 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45043449[source]▶
we have investigate that, but it requires sudo access which is not allowed but the running user.
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1. inopinatus ◴[27 Aug 25 21:44 UTC] No.45045684[source]▶
You may find the fakeroot utility goes a long way to help. But never forget that binary packages are merely archives, or sometimes, archives-of-archives (as in Debian); we can unroll them anywhere.